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News April 15, 2025

A Woman’s Resistance

A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…

Books March 5, 2025

Primo Levi in Swahili

A new translation of If This is a Man into Swahili is available on the site of the International Center of Primo Levi Studies in Turin and can be downloaded…

Books, News November 22, 2024

WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!

The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, a consortium of Jewish libraries, archives, research institutes,…

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Videos April 1, 2013

Tzvi Avni on Primo Levi

“Avni’s vivid settings recalled Mahler and Shostakovich, always responsive to the poem’s meditation on inhumanity, based on Levi’s Holocaust experiences. The five songs are structured as a set, the steady…

Videos April 1, 2013

New Voices on Primo Levi

Held on the 90th Anniversary of Primo Levi the 2009 symposium highlighted the critical work of Giorgio Agamben and the translations of If This is a Man in Arabic and…

Videos April 1, 2013

Primo Levi at 90

Each year, the Primo Levi Forum connects scholars and practitioners from the many fields of the humanities and sciences that defined Levi’s intellectual horizon. What continues to emerge is the…

Videos April 1, 2013

Katja

It is a first hand testimony, in all its unique flavor and idiosyncratic detail, tracing the ark of a life that started in war torn Italy, continuing with an American…

Videos April 1, 2013

The Rosselli Case

Among the most courageous figures of Italian antifascism, Carlo and Nello Rosselli co-founded Giustizia e Libertà. Carlo was among the first to grasp the importance of the Spanish Civil War…

Videos April 1, 2013

J-Italy

J-ITALY, conceived by Centro Primo Levi in collaboration with ENIT (The Italian National Tourism Board) and designed by Jonathan Wajskol, is a newly created portal that provides a dynamic guide to…